Interestingly, Eric Cantor being Jewish makes him an ‘atypical’ Southerner, but Newt Gingrich and especially Dick Armey being Northerners isn’t to be treated similarly.

(My solution to this particular problem is not to count Jews as ‘atypical’. I would point out that Eric Cantor is the only Jew in Congress willing to be a Republican, but if anything this would make him more ‘Southern’, not less.)